When I am king, I will create law that limits the right to speach (or perhaps the right to life) for vermin like you. It will be amusing to revel that "you people are just that dense that they cannot grasp this concept?" and dare violate my will.
When I am king, opposing my right to rule will also be illegal. Unless your king is actively funneling his tyranny for your benefit, which deprecates you to the same evil, why protect his tyranny? If only your everlasting devotion is rewarded by your satanist master, stengthening the power of the ring of Sauron (what legitimizes the position of your king), only strengthens the power that evil can commit against you.
I'm not sure Cell phones is a good product category. They're already cheap.
They are potentially scamming the public or investors with this product (it may not be as cheap as they claim). At any rate, they are finding difficulties with an ambitious marketing plan. It would seem like a good fit to partner with an existing carrier rather than try to make these impulse items. I wonder if the product fizzled because the talk plans were too expensive, compared to prepaid plans, or other phone company packages.
Cell phones may be too competitive of a product category. Not sure what they should go for instead though.
has some catchy songs produced in alternative-electropop-lounge-portishead-ish manner.
First 4 songs (what I've heard so far) anyway are radio worthy. You can continue living comfortably without checking them out, but if you want something specific to check out on the site:
At first I thought the answer was that the things that climb up the rope don't pull on the rope. The article said they would be powered by lasers.
But that does seem non-sensical. If the rope isn't being pulled on to climb, then there doesn't need to be a rope there.
Maybe the answer is that the structure is engineered to hold the orbital platform and the payload being pulled up to it.
If the physics say that a platform at sustainable geosychronous orbit center of gravity of the structure will keep it hovering, then if the center of gravity is actually higher than the platform, then it still stays "afloat". Doesn't it?
So there would be headroom weight that can climb up. Maybe you need counterweights to climb down for the first km up (lifting force required is maximum at base of elevator).
Perhaps a better location than middle of pacific would be a high mountain top with possible road access. (http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/asia/india/BIK _HIMA.HTM) is currently the highest road in the world at 4.5km altitude. I wonder if this saves only 13.5km of rope length, or if there are also savings that come from not having to pull stuff up from sea level.
Another way to look at it, is that the center of gravity for a 100000km ribbon would normally be at 50000km. Putting a big fat space platform at 35000km, puts the real center of gravity between those 2 numbers, and so there is overhead I spoke of above.
There are 2 big issues I don't understand:
1. If the cable weighs more at the bottom, and weighs nothing above 35000km, then its true center of gravity will always be lower than 35000km, and it will always fall back down.
2. If the answer to 1 is that it's rotational force that keeps the counter weight up there, then isn't there a potential drag on earth's rotational speed? Whatever force it is that makes you spin slower when you extend your arms out instead of clutching them to you?
if the software you want to run does not come with (or is updated after distro pressed) the existing distros, then gentoo's portage system could still provide you a straightforward way of installing it.
without knowing the algorithm or source code used, the problem with software RNGs is that they all cycle. So if you use one to generate its full list of output, you can predict any program's random number stream after just a few samples.
Your mathematician annecdote sounds a little far fetched. There is only a few widely used algorithms for software RNGs, so I guess it is possible to guess at the core algorithm, guess at straightforward software manipulations of the RNGs, and then test against the stream of keno numbers to find where in the cycle it is.
No democrat has anything to fear from supporting or showing the proper deferrence to the system that keeps the republicrat power sharing consortium in unchallengeable power.
If on the other hand, your political persuasions point out the rancid decrepitude and corruption inherent in the US political system that controls popular support through deceptive machiavelian/Goering fearmongering and brainwashing techniques, then you may feel that further empowering facsism will expand government's usurping of the public interest onto itself and its overlords. You might also be personally targeted as a threat to the regime.
When republicans tell you just be happy and trust us, its like SH telling Iraqi's to join the Baath party. Just come to us, you'll be safe here. There are no genetic differences among american politicians that guarantee a kinder gentler fascism than history has thought us to expect from previous all-powerful dictatorships.
The article almost gets it. The key to successful music distribution is not bundling it with other products, but rather fixed buffet pricing.
The article does a good job at outlining categories such as jazz, pop, oldies, and pricing each group separately. Prices like $40/yr for jazz or older catalog, and slightly more for teenie bop pop would sell well.
The distribution model could be backed with 200 mp3 cd compilations sold at $10-15 a pop.
Basically, DRM could be used to reduce the cost of music, but also make it more convenient and simultaneously greatly increase industry revenues
Whether or not that quote was never said by JC, it is still incredibly apt. About the only explanation for polls going from under 20% war support if without UNSC sanction to the 75% support level within a few weeks, is that the citizens blood has been made to boil to the point that they have handed their rights to their rulers.
Firstly, this would be like if golf tournament prizes were entirely made up of competitor entry fees. The only people who would play in the long run, are the better than average, and the stupid. As more people drop out, the better than average skill level will creep up.
When gambling, stupid people count on luck changing. In skill games, even stupid people will understand that they don't have a clue what they're doing. So its hard to imagine that they will refill their accounts, when they can get their ass kicked for free somewhere else.
The payoff is that it is cheaper to put a $200 motor on a heavy rugged $100-$200 mountain bike, than it is to get a $4000 titanium road bike, and you get greater sustained performance.
You nailed all the reasons for why mountain bikes make better city bikes, in your last paragraph.
The city bike feature that is possibly most important is theftability. In Toronto, I stick to $40 "garage sale" bikes.
That said, I would prefer a quieter/greener/(more efficient?) 4-stroke model, and security features. It would still be more affordable and better performing than electric solutions, and at 35-40lbs is still pedellable if you want to pretend you are doing exercise.
If money wins elections, why aren't Steve Forbes and Ross Perot building their presidential libraries now?
Because even they are hoplessly outspent by the $1B per election of the main two parties. Showing up each election, also builds brand equity in the parties, and so outsiders further have to spend incredible amounts over long periods of time, before even seeing the relevant political podium.
The fact that political office is out of reach even to rich outsiders is a clear signal that a consortium monopolizing power rules over us, occasionaly providing us with a multiple-choice exam as to determining the face of our leadership, rather than the illusion of democracy that the matrix provides us.
adding light to an interesting proposal (Copying parent text), by AC:
Fascism n.A philosophy or system of government that advocates or exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism.
New College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Copyright 1969, Houghton Mifflen.
There is an essay that is currently being hosted at: http://brutusworks.com/politics/bribe_bazaar.htm
that directly addresses this issue. The author, Dr. Cushman, has advanced in
his thinking since the essay was written and is now trying to set up a web site
(BreakTheLink.org) that can be used to coordinate the efforts of volunteers
willing to fight. This is how: For fascism to thrive, there has to be a monetary
link between corporations and politicians. Breaking this link is the key to
recovering our Republic. There are two paths that can be taken to fight political
bribery. First, there are 24 states (and the District of Columbia) that have
provisions for direct citizen democracy in their constitutions. A citizen initiative
something like the following pursued in these states would be very useful (language
for Florida):
We The Citizens of Florida hold that those elected to represent and govern
the entire body politic within Florida cannot accept bribes from individuals
or organizations with special interests from within said body politic without
accruing the taint of dishonor and the burden of bias; and further, that the
offering of bribes to elected representatives in order to influence the specific
ends of said individuals or organizations, or the accepting of said bribes by
said elected representatives constitutes Treason to the remaining constituents
of said body politic and shall be punished as such under the felony laws of
the State of Florida. For the purposes of this Amendment, the following expressions
shall have the indicated definitions and may be used in the singular or plural.
Bribe means: Anything given or serving to persuade or induce. Bribery
means: the act or practice of giving or accepting a bribe. For the purposes
of this Amendment a bribe does not include information or media necessary to
transmit information as long as said media has a monetary value less than $100.
Treason means: the betrayal of a trust or confidence; a breach of
faith; treachery. For the purposes of this Amendment, a charge of bribery shall
be construed in two parts: the first part shall be a question of the fact of
a transfer of money or other value from an individual or special interest group
to a public official. All parties shall be presumed innocent of said charge
of monetary or other value transfer until proven guilty beyond a reasonable
doubt. The second part of a bribery charge concerns the fact of whether a proven
transfer of money or other value is influencing and thus an act of Bribery and
Treason. the burden of proof for a public official or individual or special
interest group accused of bribery shall lie with the accused to prove beyond
a reasonable doubt that money or value accepted is not influencing.
It needs work, I know, but you get the idea. The second possible approach is described in the essay referenced above.
I played Sanctum, and almost got into Chron X. I've never played MtG.
In addition to your points, I'd add that Sanctum was designed as computer only from day 1, so it had the ability to use much more sophisticated rules. It makes for a better game.
I agree that tweaking cards in order to balance the game, although can have some effect on the value of those cards, is far preferrable to banning them altogether (making them almost worthless), or leaving the game unbalanced.
I stopped playing sanctum only because the designers didn't understand how their game was played, and left it unbalanced.
I played Sanctum 3-4 years ago, and it was absolutely fantastic. Cheating was never a problem, unless the occasional lossed connections in losing situations counts.
I have no idea how magic online works, but these games can be designed reliably.
Most moves in the early to middle game, can quickly be determined as leading to material loss, and so quickly discounted. Its very rare to have as many as 3-5 non-obviously-stupid moves early to mid game.
In the end game, each rook and bishop has up to 14 squares to choose from, and there's less obvious reasons why any of those squares is obviously stupid.
I don't know which will be solved first, or which is easier, but I can tell you that end games understanding is what makes humans competitive with computers.
There are many more reasonable looking moves (especially to a computer) in the end game, than in openings and midgame. It also takes more plys (looking farther ahead in the game with mroe branches) to see if the moves pan out or not.
This has the same chance of success as using a NIC's MAC address for encryption.
The idea of making the software and your NIC tamper proof, so that it always gets the "real" MAC address from the physical card is bypassed quite simply by writting new software that lets you plug in whatever MAC/GPS address you would care to pretend to have as a decryption input.
Its a crack once, decode freely foreever problem, and its one of negligeable difficulty.
From the consuemr perspective, no one would prefer a version of windows without features if its the same price as one with features. It will be the same price.
The solution will provide no consumer benefit whatsoever, so it is essentially retarded from that perspective.
So why are states pushing for this stupidity? Simply put, the corruption of democratic lobbying. The effort will give power to computer makers, AOL, and Real, and they are influencing political action targeting MS, but in the end, computer makers will be the only ones benefitting since MS will be part of the bidding war in penetrating desktops with their apps, and at present, they have a quality advantage, and controlling the base OS, gives them an abundance of tactics to keep the relative quality advantage.
Splitting up the company into an OS only group and other software group must be part of any such debundling plan, for it to serve any benefit to the software industry.
is great when you've got an unlimited budget, but it makes the film easier artistically, since the entire crew/cast is well aware of what has occured already, and so don't need as much direction.
Complete amateurs, and corrupt slush fund trustees choose chronological shooting sequence, either becuase they don't know any better, or because they have lots of nephews to employ.
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When I am king, I will create law that limits the right to speach (or perhaps the right to life) for vermin like you. It will be amusing to revel that "you people are just that dense that they cannot grasp this concept?" and dare violate my will.
When I am king, opposing my right to rule will also be illegal. Unless your king is actively funneling his tyranny for your benefit, which deprecates you to the same evil, why protect his tyranny? If only your everlasting devotion is rewarded by your satanist master, stengthening the power of the ring of Sauron (what legitimizes the position of your king), only strengthens the power that evil can commit against you.
I'm not sure Cell phones is a good product category. They're already cheap.
They are potentially scamming the public or investors with this product (it may not be as cheap as they claim). At any rate, they are finding difficulties with an ambitious marketing plan. It would seem like a good fit to partner with an existing carrier rather than try to make these impulse items. I wonder if the product fizzled because the talk plans were too expensive, compared to prepaid plans, or other phone company packages.
Cell phones may be too competitive of a product category. Not sure what they should go for instead though.
What can WinFS accomplish that couldn't simply be done through filename conventions.
For example:
My Word Doc.doc
My Word Doc.doc.xmlannotations
My Word Doc.doc.sqlindexedtextversion
My Word Doc.doc.xmlenterpriserelevancy
together with a bunch of services that monitor, and assist in generating, querying, and interpreting the data.
MS may be providing tools to assist in all this, but isn't this a very simple idea that can be done/copied with any existing OS, with little effort?
I'm suprised someone at the DOJ hasn't already filed Patriot act charges against him...
Because he's a white christian, and likely only to use the weapon to harm enemies of the DOJ?
has some catchy songs produced in alternative-electropop-lounge-portishead-ish manner.
First 4 songs (what I've heard so far) anyway are radio worthy. You can continue living comfortably without checking them out, but if you want something specific to check out on the site:
http://www.magnatune.com/artists/emmas_mini
At first I thought the answer was that the things that climb up the rope don't pull on the rope. The article said they would be powered by lasers.
K _HIMA.HTM) is currently the highest road in the world at 4.5km altitude. I wonder if this saves only 13.5km of rope length, or if there are also savings that come from not having to pull stuff up from sea level.
But that does seem non-sensical. If the rope isn't being pulled on to climb, then there doesn't need to be a rope there.
Maybe the answer is that the structure is engineered to hold the orbital platform and the payload being pulled up to it.
If the physics say that a platform at sustainable geosychronous orbit center of gravity of the structure will keep it hovering, then if the center of gravity is actually higher than the platform, then it still stays "afloat". Doesn't it?
So there would be headroom weight that can climb up. Maybe you need counterweights to climb down for the first km up (lifting force required is maximum at base of elevator).
Perhaps a better location than middle of pacific would be a high mountain top with possible road access. (http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/asia/india/BI
Another way to look at it, is that the center of gravity for a 100000km ribbon would normally be at 50000km. Putting a big fat space platform at 35000km, puts the real center of gravity between those 2 numbers, and so there is overhead I spoke of above.
There are 2 big issues I don't understand:
1. If the cable weighs more at the bottom, and weighs nothing above 35000km, then its true center of gravity will always be lower than 35000km, and it will always fall back down.
2. If the answer to 1 is that it's rotational force that keeps the counter weight up there, then isn't there a potential drag on earth's rotational speed? Whatever force it is that makes you spin slower when you extend your arms out instead of clutching them to you?
if the software you want to run does not come with (or is updated after distro pressed) the existing distros, then gentoo's portage system could still provide you a straightforward way of installing it.
without knowing the algorithm or source code used, the problem with software RNGs is that they all cycle. So if you use one to generate its full list of output, you can predict any program's random number stream after just a few samples.
Your mathematician annecdote sounds a little far fetched. There is only a few widely used algorithms for software RNGs, so I guess it is possible to guess at the core algorithm, guess at straightforward software manipulations of the RNGs, and then test against the stream of keno numbers to find where in the cycle it is.
... from a government it supports.
No democrat has anything to fear from supporting or showing the proper deferrence to the system that keeps the republicrat power sharing consortium in unchallengeable power.
If on the other hand, your political persuasions point out the rancid decrepitude and corruption inherent in the US political system that controls popular support through deceptive machiavelian/Goering fearmongering and brainwashing techniques, then you may feel that further empowering facsism will expand government's usurping of the public interest onto itself and its overlords. You might also be personally targeted as a threat to the regime.
When republicans tell you just be happy and trust us, its like SH telling Iraqi's to join the Baath party. Just come to us, you'll be safe here. There are no genetic differences among american politicians that guarantee a kinder gentler fascism than history has thought us to expect from previous all-powerful dictatorships.
The article almost gets it. The key to successful music distribution is not bundling it with other products, but rather fixed buffet pricing.
The article does a good job at outlining categories such as jazz, pop, oldies, and pricing each group separately. Prices like $40/yr for jazz or older catalog, and slightly more for teenie bop pop would sell well.
The distribution model could be backed with 200 mp3 cd compilations sold at $10-15 a pop.
Basically, DRM could be used to reduce the cost of music, but also make it more convenient and simultaneously greatly increase industry revenues
Whether or not that quote was never said by JC, it is still incredibly apt. About the only explanation for polls going from under 20% war support if without UNSC sanction to the 75% support level within a few weeks, is that the citizens blood has been made to boil to the point that they have handed their rights to their rulers.
Firstly, this would be like if golf tournament prizes were entirely made up of competitor entry fees. The only people who would play in the long run, are the better than average, and the stupid. As more people drop out, the better than average skill level will creep up.
When gambling, stupid people count on luck changing. In skill games, even stupid people will understand that they don't have a clue what they're doing. So its hard to imagine that they will refill their accounts, when they can get their ass kicked for free somewhere else.
Interesting, but there appears to be a bug in their drive control system:
If you never go above 12mph for an extended period of time, the electic portion in their system will never get recharged.
The payoff is that it is cheaper to put a $200 motor on a heavy rugged $100-$200 mountain bike, than it is to get a $4000 titanium road bike, and you get greater sustained performance.
You nailed all the reasons for why mountain bikes make better city bikes, in your last paragraph.
The city bike feature that is possibly most important is theftability. In Toronto, I stick to $40 "garage sale" bikes.
That said, I would prefer a quieter/greener/(more efficient?) 4-stroke model, and security features. It would still be more affordable and better performing than electric solutions, and at 35-40lbs is still pedellable if you want to pretend you are doing exercise.
If money wins elections, why aren't Steve Forbes and Ross Perot building their presidential libraries now?
Because even they are hoplessly outspent by the $1B per election of the main two parties. Showing up each election, also builds brand equity in the parties, and so outsiders further have to spend incredible amounts over long periods of time, before even seeing the relevant political podium.
The fact that political office is out of reach even to rich outsiders is a clear signal that a consortium monopolizing power rules over us, occasionaly providing us with a multiple-choice exam as to determining the face of our leadership, rather than the illusion of democracy that the matrix provides us.
adding light to an interesting proposal (Copying parent text), by AC:
that directly addresses this issue. The author, Dr. Cushman, has advanced in
Fascism n. A philosophy or system of government that advocates or exercises
a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with an ideology of belligerent nationalism.
New College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. Copyright 1969, Houghton Mifflen.
There is an essay that is currently being hosted at: http://brutusworks.com/politics/bribe_bazaar.htm
his thinking since the essay was written and is now trying to set up a web site
(BreakTheLink.org) that can be used to coordinate the efforts of volunteers
willing to fight. This is how: For fascism to thrive, there has to be a monetary
link between corporations and politicians. Breaking this link is the key to
recovering our Republic. There are two paths that can be taken to fight political
bribery. First, there are 24 states (and the District of Columbia) that have
provisions for direct citizen democracy in their constitutions. A citizen initiative
something like the following pursued in these states would be very useful (language
for Florida):
We The Citizens of Florida hold that those elected to represent and govern
the entire body politic within Florida cannot accept bribes from individuals
or organizations with special interests from within said body politic without
accruing the taint of dishonor and the burden of bias; and further, that the
offering of bribes to elected representatives in order to influence the specific
ends of said individuals or organizations, or the accepting of said bribes by
said elected representatives constitutes Treason to the remaining constituents
of said body politic and shall be punished as such under the felony laws of
the State of Florida. For the purposes of this Amendment, the following expressions
shall have the indicated definitions and may be used in the singular or plural.
Bribe means: Anything given or serving to persuade or induce. Bribery
means: the act or practice of giving or accepting a bribe. For the purposes
of this Amendment a bribe does not include information or media necessary to
transmit information as long as said media has a monetary value less than $100.
Treason means: the betrayal of a trust or confidence; a breach of
faith; treachery. For the purposes of this Amendment, a charge of bribery shall
be construed in two parts: the first part shall be a question of the fact of
a transfer of money or other value from an individual or special interest group
to a public official. All parties shall be presumed innocent of said charge
of monetary or other value transfer until proven guilty beyond a reasonable
doubt. The second part of a bribery charge concerns the fact of whether a proven
transfer of money or other value is influencing and thus an act of Bribery and
Treason. the burden of proof for a public official or individual or special
interest group accused of bribery shall lie with the accused to prove beyond
a reasonable doubt that money or value accepted is not influencing.
It needs work, I know, but you get the idea. The second possible approach is described in the essay referenced above.
I played Sanctum, and almost got into Chron X. I've never played MtG.
In addition to your points, I'd add that Sanctum was designed as computer only from day 1, so it had the ability to use much more sophisticated rules. It makes for a better game.
I agree that tweaking cards in order to balance the game, although can have some effect on the value of those cards, is far preferrable to banning them altogether (making them almost worthless), or leaving the game unbalanced.
I stopped playing sanctum only because the designers didn't understand how their game was played, and left it unbalanced.
I played Sanctum 3-4 years ago, and it was absolutely fantastic. Cheating was never a problem, unless the occasional lossed connections in losing situations counts.
I have no idea how magic online works, but these games can be designed reliably.
Sorry, you're just wrong :)
Most moves in the early to middle game, can quickly be determined as leading to material loss, and so quickly discounted. Its very rare to have as many as 3-5 non-obviously-stupid moves early to mid game.
In the end game, each rook and bishop has up to 14 squares to choose from, and there's less obvious reasons why any of those squares is obviously stupid.
I don't know which will be solved first, or which is easier, but I can tell you that end games understanding is what makes humans competitive with computers.
There are many more reasonable looking moves (especially to a computer) in the end game, than in openings and midgame. It also takes more plys (looking farther ahead in the game with mroe branches) to see if the moves pan out or not.
girl bands with bigger breasts and more ass shaking!
And how is this is a bad thing???
because as great as they are to look at, you/we hear their pre-processed crap 50 times for every one time you see them perform.
girl bands with bigger breasts and more ass shaking!
:(
Although this sounds good at first, unfortunately, radio play will be swamped by the promotional music ventures
This has the same chance of success as using a NIC's MAC address for encryption.
The idea of making the software and your NIC tamper proof, so that it always gets the "real" MAC address from the physical card is bypassed quite simply by writting new software that lets you plug in whatever MAC/GPS address you would care to pretend to have as a decryption input.
Its a crack once, decode freely foreever problem, and its one of negligeable difficulty.
From the consuemr perspective, no one would prefer a version of windows without features if its the same price as one with features. It will be the same price.
The solution will provide no consumer benefit whatsoever, so it is essentially retarded from that perspective.
So why are states pushing for this stupidity? Simply put, the corruption of democratic lobbying. The effort will give power to computer makers, AOL, and Real, and they are influencing political action targeting MS, but in the end, computer makers will be the only ones benefitting since MS will be part of the bidding war in penetrating desktops with their apps, and at present, they have a quality advantage, and controlling the base OS, gives them an abundance of tactics to keep the relative quality advantage.
Splitting up the company into an OS only group and other software group must be part of any such debundling plan, for it to serve any benefit to the software industry.
is great when you've got an unlimited budget, but it makes the film easier artistically, since the entire crew/cast is well aware of what has occured already, and so don't need as much direction.
Complete amateurs, and corrupt slush fund trustees choose chronological shooting sequence, either becuase they don't know any better, or because they have lots of nephews to employ.